APOD (An Anthropological Study of Peer-Supported Open Dialogue) is an ethnographic project looking at an alternative approach to mental healthcare being developed in the NHS.
An Anthropological Study of Peer-Supported Open Dialogue


About Us
Led by David Mosse (SOAS, Department of Anthropology), we are a team of anthropologists from SOAS and Durham Universities, and clinical professionals from the NHS, involved as practitioner-ethnographers of the Open Dialogue approach to mental healthcare. Some of us have personal lived experience of mental distress, both as service-users and carers.
News and Reflections
November & December Newsletter
Update from our Coastal West Country siteĀ Liana has been ...
October Newsletter
Update from our Coastal West Country siteĀ Fieldwork with families ...
Reflections from the field by Kiara
Positionalities: Reflections from the field by Kiara (Interviewed by Keira) ...
May Newsletter
An exciting update for APOD A new coastal west-country site ...